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Successfully Facilitating Organizational Change
Michael Couch is featured on HR Watches The Office: Wonderful comedic conflict and HR nightmares up the wazoo.
Michael joins other experts in discussing “the flood of organization issues spewing from NBC’s hit TV series The Office”. The result — an entertaining and enlightening series of podcasts at HR Watches the Office.
Matt Dubno and Michael discuss how recently sold Dunder Mifflin can transition to a new and improved powerhouse and how leaders can effectively play a role during times of change.
Michael Couch discusses strategic talent management, strategy and talent trends in a down economy, and the “gong-able moment” on TECHVIBE with Pittsburgh Technology Council hosts Audrey Russo, President and CEO, and Jonathan Kersting, Director, Visibility Initiatives.
29 minutes
Michael's Articles
Keys to keeping your talent train on track Strategic Talent Management: Not Your Grandfather's HR Assessing Your Organization's Talent
People Are NOT Your Most Important Asset . . . Sort Of A New Approach to Hiring: Change Your Thinking
to Significantly Improve the Selection Process Executive Coaching - Keys to Success Strategy-Driven Organization Development: HR's Opportunity to Shine Keys to a Successful Strategy: How to Improve Strategy Development, Deployment, and Execution
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Employee Communications Guidebook: The Blueprint for Employee Communications Strategies Michael Couch, Contributor Whether it’s recruiting and retaining talent or greening the workplace, this Guidebook will hone your understanding on how you can craft effective messaging to employees. It will also give you the resources you need to streamline all channels of internal communications. Putting employee communications on the backburner during this challenging period is not only foolhardy but a serious misstep that can have damaging repercussions from which your company may never fully recover.
$100 Discount from Michael Couch & Associates Inc. |
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Exploding the Meeting Myth An introduction to Compression Planning... big solutions for complex issues when time is limited. by Jerry McNellis, Patrick McNellis, Jack Nettles Most managers instinctively know "what to do." Amazingly few know "how to do." This is a how-to-do book. It's about how to free up people so they can push and create new, winning concepts. It's about the Compression Planning Systems. This process helps leaders recruit and lead teams - turning ideas into practical action faster than they ever thought possible. |
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Making Change Happen One Person at a Time by Dr Charles Bishop Describes the theory and practice behind the Human Asset Inventory® and the Human Asset Dashboard™ |
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Competing for Customers and Winning with Value by Eric Reidenbach and Reg Goeke This book brings together, for the first time, two very powerful concepts: customer value and competitive planning. Together they create a powerful tool that will generate breakthrough strategies for market dominance, strategies reflected in Value Driven Business Growth. |
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Courageous Training by Tim Mooney and Robert O Brinkerhoff
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Dominating Markets with Value by Eric Reidenbach and Reg Goeke "Goeke and Reidenbach have done a wonderful job - giving managers the practical tools they need to move beyond
talking about customer value, to implementing a value-based business practice - step-by-step."
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Beat the Odds by Robert A. Rudzki "Beat the Odds is the playbook every manager should read to be sure of winning beyond the next few quarters."
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